The IMF retained its 2.1 percent forecast of Nigeria’s GDP growth rate for 2018, while increasing the 2019 projected GDP growth rate to 2.3 percent1, from 1.9 percent projected earlier. The stated review is at the backdrop of continued increases in commodity prices in the long term, for which crude…

Access to finance has been considered to be one of the important factors in influencing firms’ real activities and in promoting aggregates. However, literature on the relationship between finance and firm-level productivity is almost non-existent for African countries. This paper fills this gap by using cross-sectional firm-level data to estimate…

Economic or trade unions all have something in common; to form a sizable market that can position its member states in a vantage standpoint needed to influence trade negotiations or expand the economic prosperity of its people through joint policy. Economic unions or blocs are not necessarily formed to increase…

Nigeria confronts a prolonged period of adjustment. For more than a generation, the oil sector generated large volumes of foreign exchange. However, with the recent bust in global oil prices and the resumed restiveness in the oil rich Niger-Delta region since 2014, Nigeria was thrust into macroeconomic crisis. Nearly four…

CSEA’s Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Adedeji Adeniran and Research Associate, Joseph Ishaku participated in the Peer Review Workshop for the “State of the SDGs” report organized by the Southern Voice in Negombo, Sri Lanka on July 18-20, 2018. The meeting featured six research teams– Ghana, Nigeria, Bolivia, Peru, India and Sri Lanka- the launch of […]